DICV's Oragadam plant rolls out 20,000 trucks

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. (DICV) has rolled out the 20,000th truck from its plant at Oragadam, near Chennai. The company has achieved this milestone only two and a half years from the since the production of the first BharatBenz heavy-duty truck. The 20,000th locally produced truck is a BharatBenz 2523C Tipper.

About half of the 20,000 trucks produced at the plant were manufactured in 2014, indicating the rapid growth at which the production site has been witnessing.

The DICV plant in Oragadam produces trucks and engines of the three brands - BharatBenz, FUSO and Mercedes-Benz.  A new bus manufacturing facility is being constructed within the existing premises of DICV. The bus plant is spread across an area of 27.91 acres and will be completed by the second quarter of 2015. The company has earmarked an investment of Rs. 425 crore for the project . The plant will initially have an installed capacity of 1,500 units, which can be expanded to 4,000 units subsequently. The DICV plant will be the only Daimler truck plant worldwide, that manufactures three brands of trucks and buses under one roof.